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I wish I could be your white knight, but I doubt it :D
all I can do is share some of my experience with WD Mybook Drives. But what saved me (or better say my data) twice, is unlikely to work in your case. But no harm in trying, eh ? ;-)

For my first 2 failing 'Mybooks' I was able to salvage the ...

Apologies for cutting in your conversation, but your description brought some old memories back to life.

I take it that the disk with problems is the 2nd disk: dev/sdb WDC WD10EADS.
This makes the disk part of the (unfortunately infamous) Western Digital WD Green Series (manufactured ~2009)

Is ...